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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steve Stanko wanted to be an interior decorator but his father, a Hungarian immigrant, put him to work in an iron foundry close by their home in Perth Amboy, N. J. There two years ago Physical Culturist Bob Hoffman noticed brawny young Stanko, offered him a job in his barbell foundry at York, Pa., promised to make him the strongest man in the world...
Largest pickle packer in the business is Heinz, with an estimated gross between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 a year. Heinz policy keeps it out of the trade association but it works closely with N. P. P. A. whose biggest members are Widlar Food Products (Standard Brands), Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby and Squire Dingee. Biggest pickle States today are Wisconsin and Michigan but the oldest is New York where Dutch burghers packed dills not many years after Henry Hudson debarked from the Half Moon...
...shortly before the late great Booker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League, there were two Negro banks. When N. N. B. A. was formed in 1926, eleven years after Booker Washington's death, there were 25. Depression I took its toll of Negro banks as of white banks. Today there are twelve active Negro banks and trust companies (with total capital of $1,000,000, assets of $10,000,000) besides 18 savings, loan, and real estate banks...
Except for Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. (assets $739,383) all N. N. B. A. banks are in the South. Largest is the Mechanics & Farmers Bank of Durham, N. C. (assets $1,354,000). Oldest is the Citizens Savings Bank & Trust Co. of Nashville (assets $584,000), founded...
During the course of the meeting N. N. B. A. held its annual election. No one was in doubt how it would turn out. Re-elected for the 14th time was its only president: 85-year-old Major (Spanish-American War paymaster) Richard R. Wright, president of the Citizens & Southern...